| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes. By John H. Monnett. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxiii + 252 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)

The story of the Northern Cheyennes in the wake of the Great Sioux War is a riveting one, with enough drama and pathos to satisfy even the most ardent student of Shakespeare. Like their allies the Lakota Sioux, the Northern Cheyennes were relentlessly pursued by the U. S. Army following the Custer disaster, culminating in the destruction of Dull Knife's winter village by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's troops in November 1876. In the aftermath, the survivors, along with other Northern Cheyenne bands, were forced to relocate to the Darlington agency in Indian Territory during the summer of 1877. When their request to return to the Powder River Country was rejected, a group of about three hundred men, women, and children under the leadership of Dull Knife and Little Wolf quietly left the agency early one morning in September 1878. What followed was a little known fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey that lasted until March 1879, when the last group of Indians under Little Wolf surrendered in what is now Montana. . . .

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